Trust & Your Artwork

Uploading your art to an AI tool is a reasonable thing to hesitate over. Artists have spent the last few years watching their work get scraped, ingested, and turned into training data without being asked, so “what happens to my file?” is not paranoia. It is the correct question.

This page answers it plainly, including the parts that are limits rather than reassurances. For the formal legal text, see the Privacy Policy. This page is the plain-language version of the part artists actually care about.

What happens when you upload a piece

The critique flow is deliberately short-lived. When you upload artwork for feedback:

• The image is sent for analysis, a critique is generated, and the result is returned to you.
• The image is processed to produce that critique and is not retained as part of any dataset.
• Nothing is published, shared, or made visible to other users. A critique is between you and the tool.
• If you save the feedback, the critique text and scores are stored so you can review your history. Saving the image itself is your choice, not the default.

The practical implication: if you upload a piece, get a critique, and save nothing, there is nothing left behind to worry about.

The limits worth knowing

A trust page that only lists reassurances is marketing. Here are the honest caveats.

Analysis happens off-device. Generating a critique requires sending the image to a model, which means it leaves your machine. That is inherent to how the tool works, not a policy choice, and no privacy stance changes it. If a piece is under a strict NDA, the correct answer is not to upload it.

Client and contract work needs your own judgement. If you are working under an agreement that restricts sharing unreleased work with third parties, that agreement governs, not this page. Check it before you upload.

Unreleased personal work is a risk you control. Some artists prefer to critique a downscaled version, a crop, or a watermarked copy of work they have not published yet. That is a sensible habit and it costs you very little: critique quality depends on values, composition and structure, all of which survive a smaller file.

Photograph quality changes the critique, not the privacy. Poor lighting or a skewed angle will produce feedback about problems your painting does not have. That is a separate issue from trust, and it is worth getting right.

Where we stand on AI and artists

Coartist critiques art. It does not generate art in your style, and it is not built to replace the part of the process that is yours.

That distinction matters more than it might sound. A generator needs your work as input to produce output that competes with you. A critique tool needs your work only long enough to tell you what is not reading clearly, and then it is done. The incentive to hoard artwork simply is not there, which is the real reason the policy above is easy to keep.

The point of feedback is that you make the next decision. A critique that told you what to draw would be worth less than one that tells you your value structure collapses at thumbnail size.

Your control over what exists

• Saving is opt-in. Critiques and images persist because you chose to keep them, not because a session happened.
• Deletion is real deletion. Remove a saved critique or image and it is removed, not hidden.
• Account deletion removes your data. Closing your account removes the artwork and critique history associated with it.
• You can ask what we hold. Request a copy of your data, or ask for it to be deleted, via Contact.

Questions worth asking any AI art tool

Not just this one. If a tool cannot answer these plainly, that is your answer:

• Is my work used to train models, and can I opt out?
• How long is my image retained, and what happens if I delete it?
• Who else can see what I upload?
• Do I keep copyright, and does uploading grant any licence?
• Is any of this different on the free tier?

On that last one: the answers on this page do not change between plans. Privacy is not a paid feature.